LinkCheck by Siteimprove

What is LinkCheck by Siteimprove?

About

LinkCheck by Siteimprove is a web crawler that analyzes websites for quality assurance, accessibility compliance, SEO optimization, and digital governance as part of Siteimprove's comprehensive content intelligence platform. You can see how often LinkCheck by Siteimprove visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) crawlers do not adhere to a fixed visitation schedule for websites. The frequency of visits varies widely based on several factors, including the search keywords it ranks for, and how many other websites link to it.

Type

SEO Crawler
Discovers search engine optimization insights

Detail

Operated By Siteimprove
Last Updated 5 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking LinkCheck by Siteimprove
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Country of Origin

Unknown
LinkCheck by Siteimprove has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from SEO Crawlers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block LinkCheck by Siteimprove?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an SEO service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

How Do I Block LinkCheck by Siteimprove?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block LinkCheck by Siteimprove or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block LinkCheck by Siteimprove

User-agent: LinkCheck by Siteimprove
Disallow: /

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